Stash-busting Baby Stuffs

It would seem that I'm quite behind on posting some things.  Like these adorable baby sweaters.  I found a couple really quick / easy crochet patterns and I was aiming to do some stash busting - so off I went.

These came together really quickly and the finished product is pretty darn nice if I do say so myself.

Moogly Sweater - is cute, but not terribly practical for winter.  I think if I were to do this again - they do say that a sleeveless version is nice too - so that's where I'd be headed with this one.  For me, this one came out a bit tight and a bit small.  I made the newborn size, so I'm hoping that it will fit a newborn?  (I don't know these things).

Looks like a watermelon!

Baby Bumpy Sweater - hey, look!  A sweater for a boy that actually looks like it's for a boy!  WOO!  Came together very easy, the bumps are the easiest way I've ever seen to make bobbles AND it's darn cute!  Only complaint on this one is that the back seam is not particularly nice.  I figured out how to make it look less blech about halfway through and at the moment I have no idea what it is.  I think I decided not to count the ch3 as part of the sts and then still did a dc in the same st (just have to be careful that you're not increasing every row when you do this!)

I did miss doing a collar as I ran out of yarn

Those bobbles look awesome.

So, please forgive me for being a couple months behind on posting these.  Apparently I finished them at the beginning of December.

Back to Reality

Well, I apparently was too busy to post over the holidays?  (I really wasn't - but I WAS having a good time)

So, being that this is the New Year and all, I made myself some crafting related resolutions.  Pretty much entirely because I spent a good 3 days cleaning up all the files in my craft room so that they were useful and not just a garbage pile (are we sensing a theme?  I'm sensing a theme.)  So now I need to keep the momentum up.  My crafting resolutions are simple and, hopefully, effective.

1. Finish All Hibernating Projects - this is the biggest and the hardest.  It would mean that I finish my cleopatra wrap and that lovely green-ish diagonal striped blanket that I've had in progress for ~4 years.  This would make me very happy (and make me feel like I *can* start new projects - not that I don't as is, but I feel guilty leaving these stragglers behind).
2. Wind My Nice Yarn Into Center Pull Cakes - I am beginning to have quite the stash (and not just of crappy walmart yarn) and none of it is really wound and that makes me not want to use it (even though it's amazing!)
3. Store Yarn / Supplies Better.  I currently have just a giant basket that is filled with random yarns (mostly crappy walmart yarn) and a little paper box beside it where I keep my scraps.  So, I'm thinking what this will entail is finding a creative way to store my knitting needles and properly storing all my newly wound hotness. :)

So, that's it.  Those are my crafting related resolutions.  I have quite the list upstairs in my teeny tiny craft room - this year my resolutions are MORE or DO rather than LESS.  I feel like that is a positive way of looking to the future.  More of the things you love and take action for things that need to be changed, rather than eat less, lose weight etc.  

Okay, less resolutions, more craftiness!

Let's see... so I'm taking that mittens and gloves galore class over at craftsy and I made some lovely thrummed mittens for my sister for Christmas.  They turned out AMAZINGLY even if I did have to rip a good portion out at first because my thrums were ginormous.  Katy seems to love them and they are super super warm.  

Little thrums (these are actually the big ones)

Mitten #1 = done!

DOS!  Dos mittens - yeah, my spanish sucks

And those slippers.  You know, the god-awful cabled slippers that were so much fun?  Yeah, they turned out awesome.  Mom is always wearing them and that almost (almost) makes all the work worth it.  Mom opened them, and Katy fell in love and asked for a pair (I said no.)

See, they turned out cute!  Worth it?

What else have I been up to over the holidays?

That rust cabled sweater?  Yeah... it's nearing completion.  Less than one ball of yarn left to go and I'm just ribbing away (though, admittedly, the ribbing is BORING.)

There's a relatively new yarn store here in Calgary called "The Loop" so I wandered over there for the "mayan apocalypse sale" she who dies with the biggest stash wins... lol.  Oh, right... the point of that... yeah, so I bought this yarn.  It was majorly on sale (I got 8 balls for $24!) and I started a lovely cable knit lap-ghan with it (seriously, it's going to be small, not sure I have quite enough yarn, but we'll see).

I started a seed stitch cardigan for my younger sister Katy's birthday (which is in January, so she is aware that it is coming and she picked out the colour, but it is in no way going to be ready for her birthday).

Oh right, and more about "The Loop".  My lovely friend Jess gave me the most wonderful birthday / Christmas gift and that was a knitting class.  So we went off to the loop for single skein sunday and started work on a pretty easy (very easy) cowl.  It's made with malabrigo yarn, so I am feeling incredibly spoiled.  

I feel pretty!  Oh so pretty!

In fact, I have been just spoiled in general this holiday.  There is nothing like the wonderful people in your life being excessively nice to you (this confuses me some, you know, I don't *need* all these nice things, and no one *has* to do this for me - Dave keeps telling me it's not because they have to, but because they want to, and that it just means my friends / family loves me) to make you realize just how wonderful your friends are and just how blessed you are.  This has been my greatest take-away from this holiday season - an overwhelming sense of love - and really, who could ask for anything more.